The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-06-18
FRANKFORT. KY, JUNE IS. 1887.

opens up Frankfort to the outside
business world? Some say, as ar
off set to all this. if these roads are
built the people will go to Cincin
natl and elsewhere and buy Their
goods. | say if the merchants
and business men of Frankfort can
not command and draw trade,
they should lose it. Frankfort
can buy her goods as cheap as
Cincinnati. She has been asleep.
She must wake up. The differ
ence in freight, between Philadel.
phia, New York, Boston, &c. q,
from Cincinnati here, will not
amount to three rows Of beans. "
Merchants here must learn, sooner
or later. that we have GOT ito
fight other business centers.
That. to meet them and meet
them successfully, we must have
cheap freights and outlets for trade.
Railroad men are sharp and
shrewd. They know that all the
laws passed by State and National
Government to equalize freights
amount to nothing. Competition
is the only thing that will ever do
this. 'rhe late Interstate Com
MERGE law | think will prove
farce. 1t has SO far. The object
of Congress in passing this bill was
to help the people, but, SO far
from that, it has been oppressive
in most cases. Communication to
and with all points, with different
lines of road, is the only effectual
thing that will ever do this
An objection that some use
against the building Of the road is
that, when built, all the roads will
90 into what is called a pool.
Grant this to be true, roads were
never known to pool at high rates.
1t is usually done at about as low
a rate as they can afford to carry.
Take Lexington before the build
ing Of the Cincinnati Southern
road. Freight was 20 to IS cents
per hundred. Now it is from 8 to
IL cents per hundred. The L. &
N. has to carry almost double the
distance either of the other roads,
but she carries just as cheap. So
If we have an air line to Cincin-
natl, 60 or 70 miles, the l.. & N.
will carry just as cheap as the air
line. Distance has nothing to do
with it. The same with passen-
gers. If we could get to Cincin-
natl in 70 miles. passage would be
but $2.Io. The L. & NJ, l be-
|ieve, charges $4.25. But after
the air line is built the L. & N.
will take you for S2.Io. This
they will have to do or not take
you at all.
The regular tariff rate in flour to
Jacksonville, Florida, from Cincin-
natl is 50 cents per barrel. We
got this rate over the l.. & N.
Why is it that 800 or 400 miles
his side of Jacksonville we pay as
nigh as SI.25? For this reason:
Jacksonville is a competitive point |
With the ocean and roads. Other
points this side have no competi-
ion. Hence the people have to
oay for everything they eat and
wear, for both man and beast, in
proportion. In other words the
armers and laboring men, being
he principal consumers, have to
Jay the difference. Here is diff
:rence Of IS cents in one barrel of
lour, and everything else is in
proportion. This is not only SO
It the points named, but is an es-
ablished fact, the world over
Hence l say the mechanics and
aborers must have work in Frank
ort, or they will have to steal, live
N charity, or 60 where work is to
,e had. The mechanics here are
Mostly idle. Elsewhere, almost
he world over, the hammer is
leard from early morning until
vening late. Every thing and
very body is on the move. Un-
eSS SOmethinU is done the GRASS